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Iyar 1, 5767, 4/19/2007
Moonbritsby Steven Plaut
 << Future member of NUJ.
So let's see if we have this clear. First, BBC reporter Alan Johnston gets himself kidnapped in Gaza by the same "activists and militants" his TV station so adores. Then according to his apparent captors he gets murdered in cold blood as an act of protest against the Israeli occupation of Gaza, which the BBC has yet to discover was ended. Then his colleagues in Britain's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) decide to a strong stand. In favor of terrorism. Reallly. With 35,000 members, the NUJ officially declared a boycott of tomatoes, cucumbers, oranges, and other products from Israel. Next time the IRA blows up buildings in London, the NUJ will demand that all visiting Israeli professors in the UK be jailed. By doing so, it joins the other Moonbrits already denouncing Israel, which is the only Middle East regime that is NOT an apartheid regime, for being an apartheid regime. The Wall Street Journal comments: 'For British journalists working in the field, the NUJ's political grandstanding cannot be entirely welcome. Besides the further damage this does to their reputation among Israelis, they also have little choice but to eat those dreadful Zionist tomatoes. We suspect, too, that Mr. Johnston's kidnapping has probably made them feel secretly grateful for the safety and freedom that living in stable, democratic Israel affords.' Islamofascist terrorists blow up the London tube trains? The Moonbrit response is to condemn dem Joos. If bin Laden and his friends ever decide to protest the illegal British occupation of Redding by crashing some planes into Westminster, the NUJ will call for an appropriate response in the form of making British Jews wear yellow stars...
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Nisan 25, 5767, 4/13/2007
The "Mobius" Mysteryby Steven Plaut
Moses is his Pusher?
Are you a Jew who believes that the highest priority for Jews is promoting recreational drugs, rock and roll music, and far-leftist anti-Semites? Well, if so, boy do we have a web site for you! Mobius in progressive tallis:  It is called "JewSchool" and can be accessed here. It is the baby of one Dan Sieradski, who calls himself "Mobius",and who describes himself as an "Orthodox Anarchist". I guess he has not gotten around to reading what Pirkei Avot and the sages had to say about anarchy. He attends Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo, a Carlebach-tradition yeshiva. Sieradski is ferociously anti-Israel and writes glowingly of such critters as Norman Finkelstein. He uses the term "progressive" like most other people use punctuation marks. He denounces those who criticize leftist anti-Semites. He claims to be an artist and a poet – here he writes a poem about "cellphone sluts." Here is one of his deeper ideas. The Jerusalem Post recently cited him and his pro-hashish lobbying efforts when debating whether marijuana is in fact "kitniyot hametz " and so prohibited on Passover for Ashkenazim. He organizes hip hop "music" events in Jerusalem. Sure, Tikkun and its pseudo-rabbis promote the same thing, but what is interesting about JewSchool is that its owner seems actually to know a thing or two about Judaism, in spite of his PC goofiness. Unlike Michael Lerner, he seems to have actually glanced at some pages in the Bible. He writes for some other web sites for Jewish stoned hippies, where he celebrates anti-Israel hoodlums. On the other hand, he has called for boycotting sources of hashish associated with terror groups, preferring nicer suppliers: ' For some Israeli hash heads, the boycott is a way of expressing their dismay at the war and Hezbollah's relentless rocket attacks on Israel. "The thing is, if you buy your drugs from Lebanon, you could well be funding terrorism through Hezbollah against Israel," one user commented. "Who among us would want that on their conscience? Not me!" Another young boycotter commented: "It's bad enough that they're trying to blow up our country. I'm not going to pay them to do it."' All of which brings us to the mystery of his web nickname "Mobius". I have not seen it explained but I would like to venture a hypothesis. Maybe Mobius will confirm or deny it here in a comment. I suspect that "Mobius" may be shorthand for the expression "Moses is my Pusher!"
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Nisan 24, 5767, 4/12/2007
'We Are a Nation That Drinks Blood'by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
In a report by Ezra HaLevi today, a Hamas spokesman is reported to have delivered a sermon in which he called for genocide of the Jews. The sermon, by Dr. Ismail Radwan, was broadcast on Palestinian Authority-controlled television.
As Ezra wrote, Radwan's call is indeed classic Hamas ideology. But they claim to be religious Muslims, so their spokespeople and their founding covenant, which includes the same genocidal exhortation as Radwan's latest speech, base themselves on Islamic religious sources.
"We will not leave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood..."
And so, we find in the passed down oral traditions (Hadith) of the statements and deeds of Islam's founder, Mohammad, the following:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. -- compilation of Hadith named "Muslim," Book 041, Number 6985.
This quotation is promoted incessantly in PA mosques, media and schools.
Much like Radwan's spiel in March 2007, every so often, PA television carries a sermon in which an Islamic cleric or leader preaches, "The Prophet said: The Resurrection will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. Rejoice in Allah's Victory... Everything wants vengeance on the Jews... these pigs on the face of the earth. And the day of our victory, Allah willing, will come." This last quote is from Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris, a Fatah-appointed cleric of the PA Ministry of Endowments & Religious Affairs (PA TV, September 10, 2004).
In 1994, Sheikh Taissir Rajab Al-Tamimi, the Palestinian Authority’s Chief of Judges and chairman of its Islamic law high council at the time, said: "The Jews are destined to be persecuted, humiliated, and tortured forever, and it is a Muslim duty to see to it that they reap their due. No petty arguments must be allowed to divide us. Where Hitler failed, we must succeed."
By the way, the fact that the latter sheikhs in question were appointed by the PLO and Fatah, not Hamas, should surprise no one. The head of the PLO's political department, Farouk Kaddoumi, in a 2003 interview with the Nazareth-based weekly Kul Al-Arab,
"Where Hitler failed, we must succeed."
explained, "We were never different from Hamas. Strategically, there is no difference between us." (Jerusalem Post January 6, 2003)
You see, for most Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews form a true obsession. The full and formal name for the international Islamic terrorist organization known as Al-Qaeda, for instance, is "The World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders", with "Crusaders" referring to the generally Christian West.
Given that, it is no surprise that in one Hamas terrorist's farewell video, he declared: "We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood better than the blood of Jews. We will not leave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and our children’s thirst with your blood."
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